4.3 The State party submits that the arrests which, according to the petitioner, took place in 1998 give no reason to believe that the Sri Lankan authorities would be particularly interested in the petitioner's activities, as according to the petitioner himself, they were due to the fact that he was new in the area and a suspected LTTE militant.
El Estado Parte afirma que las detenciones que, según el autor de la queja, tuvieron lugar en 1998 no permiten pensar que las autoridades de Sri Lanka estuvieran particularmente interesadas en las actividades del autor ya que, según él mismo afirma, se debieron al hecho de ser nuevo en la zona y a su presunta militancia en los LTTE.